Yahoo News reporter Michael Isikoff and Mother Jones magazine’s David Corn are out with a new book on the Trump/Russia saga titled “Russian Roulette.”

Isikoff and Corn are two journalists who personally met with former MI6 spy Christopher Steele while he was trying to sell his debunked Trump dossier to interested parties. Steele leaked information to both of them, as was evident in articles the duo published prior to the public even knowing about Steele’s dossier. As we learned from the Nunes memo, one article that Isikoff published cited information from Steele, and was used by the FBI when they applied for a FISA warrant to spy on Trump associate Carter Page. The FBI used Isikoff’s article as additional corroboration of Steele’s dossier. The FBI likely didn’t realize that in relying on Isikoff to corroborate Steele’s work, they were citing Steele to prove what Steele said was true.

The other uninspiring appointee that unfortunately made it through the vetting process is Gina Haspel, who was named as Deputy Director of the Central Intelligence Agency on February 2nd. She was reportedly involved in the rendition and torture programs ca. 2003-4 and actually was senior officer in charge of one of the overseas prisons located in Thailand, which was the epicenter of the “enhanced interrogation” program and the site where al-Qaeda prisoner Abu Zubaydah was waterboarded 83 times, “tortured so brutally that at one point he appeared to be dead.” In 2005 she also ordered the destruction of the video tapes made of the interrogations to avoid providing evidence to any congressional inquiry into what had gone on.

An extraordinary number of former intelligence and military operatives from the CIA, Pentagon, National Security Council and State Department are seeking nomination as Democratic candidates for Congress in the 2018 midterm elections. The potential influx of military-intelligence personnel into the legislature has no precedent in US political history.

If the Democrats capture a majority in the House of Representatives on November 6, as widely predicted, candidates drawn from the military-intelligence apparatus will comprise as many as half of the new Democratic members of Congress. They will hold the balance of power in the lower chamber of Congress.

Both push and pull are at work here. Democratic Party leaders are actively recruiting candidates with a military or intelligence background for competitive seats where there is the best chance of ousting an incumbent Republican or filling a vacancy, frequently clearing the field for a favored “star” recruit.

Illinois is the most financially unstable state in the nation, according to new ranking by U.S. News and World Report.

The ranking of 2018’s most fiscally unstable states was conducted by McKinsey & Company, the global management and consulting firm. The report considered credit rating and state public pension liability to rank states on long-term stability. For short term, the report measured each state's cash solvency and budget balance.

Illinois was 50th overall.

The state’s pension debt – commonly estimated at $130 billion, but measured as high as $250 billion last summer by Moody’s – was a factor. That debt load was cited by Moody’s and other creditors as a cause of the state’s near junk rating.

Rankings by short-term stability used the amount of liquid funds in a state’s budget and how balanced the state’s budget is.

Maybe the cameras catching and charging speeding vehicles in Providence $95 a shot is a good thing. It is definitely a “money grab," but it is also a sin tax or user tax -- rather than charging all Rhode Island residents who do not live or work in Providence for lousy municipal fiscal management and purposely lying about pension debt.

These speeding violation revenues should be dedicated to paying off the Providence pension debt that threatens all taxpayers in Rhode Island.

A good target would be emergence from “critical status” or until the pension fund is at least 60% funded. At a ticketing rate of 20,000 tickets per month, the city gets about half or $1,000,000 per month. Contributing that $12 million a year to pay down the pension debt, it will the allow Mayor Elorza to stop lying and use a 7% investment return to calculate contributions to pension plans.

Just one month after celebrating a city budget shortfall of “only” $114.2 million, Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel had to revise his numbers to more accurately convey the financial disaster facing the city. The official budget gap now stands at nearly $260 million.

One method floated to close that gap? “Super” ticket writers.

Alderman Raymond Lopez, 15th Ward, has suggested closing the gap by hiring more ticket writers to bring in more revenue. Of course, this would require the city spending more money, approximately $4.5 million upfront, to bring these ticket writers online.

These new ticket writers would be tasked with enforcing quality-of-life violations in each of the 50 wards. That means more revenue for the city from enforcing laws on everything from noise violations to not shoveling the sidewalk after a snowstorm.

Barack Obama and the leadership in the FBI unleashed the Deep State on Donald Trump by spying on him during the 2016 campaign, and then made illegal leaks of classified information once he took office.

But that’s all about to change because Trey Gowdy just said the 11 words that spells doom for Obama’s Deep State.

In an interview on Fox News, Gowdy stated that a special counsel was necessary to investigate the misdeeds at the FBI because of the Department of Justice’s conflict of interest.

He said “…a special counsel is the only entity that can do this effectively.”

Little is known about new CIA director Gina Haspel other than that the German government wants her arrested for war crimes. She is said to be architect of the Bush/Cheney kidnapping and torture regime that murdered thousands of innocent “terror suspects” in order to bolster Bush regime claims of a non-existent threat against America.

The real threat, played out on 9/11, came from Israel, Saudi Arabia and criminal elements within the “Kosher-Nostra” and neo Nazi American right as represented by Tea Party and Neocon factions and their Israeli handlers and Adelson paymaster.

Haspel joined the CIA at a time when the agency was under full White House control and the most criminal regime in America’s history. When Reagan took over, the Cold War went back burner and the CIA involvement in the drug trade became the business of the day.

Tehran:During the auspicious birth anniversary of Lady Fatima Zahra’s—the mother of the Imams—a group of panegyrists and eulogists of Al uhl-bayt from across the nation met with Ayatollah Khamenei this morning, March 8, 2018...

Hillary Clinton on Saturday partly blamed her 2016 presidential loss on white women and said that they voted for Donald Trump because their husbands told them to vote that way.

Clinton spoke at the India Today Conclave in Mumbai, India over the weekend, where a journalist introduced her as the "woman who should have been the president of the United States of America."

The event's host, India Today Editor Aroon Purie, asked Clinton how 52 percent of white women could vote for Trump after the "Access Hollywood" tape was released in the final weeks of the campaign, which featured Trump making crude sexual remarks about women.

"Democrats, going back to my husband and even before, but just in recent times going back to Bill and our candidates and then President Obama, have been losing the vote, including white women. We do not do well with white men and we don't do well with married white women," Clinton said.

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Will we never be rid of Clinton's perpetual, whining, shrill and now global, perpetual victimhood tour?!?

Clinton still doesn't "get it", as to why she lost the election. She had a lackluster campaign at best, and couldn't connect with the voters she desperately needed to create a decisive victory, and put her over the top

Additionally, she will take utterly no responsibility for her actions as Secretary of State, with her much-vaunted destruction of Libya, brought about by the assassination of Ghadaffi, for which she fiercely advocated.

This is not even to mention the dead bodies list she and Bill left in their wake.

Top tech firms have been cracking down on savvy internet users who continue to create fake, AI-assisted porn of many of Hollywood's leading ladies.

But now it seems the videos, also known as 'deepfakes,' have taken an even darker turn.

'Deepfakes' hobbyists have begun using the technology to create digitally-altered videos of world leaders, including President Donald Trump, Russian president Vladimir Putin, former president Barack Obama and former first lady and presidential candidate Hillary Clinton.

Experts warn the videos could be realistic enough to manipulate future elections and global political as soon as 2020.

Shipp explains, “Hillary Clinton was running and is running a global financial criminal syndicate. She was using these secret servers to conduct Clinton financial money laundering business."

"The shocking thing about that is all the former directors of the CIA that have come out to support her, from Clapper to Brennan to Morell to Robert Gates supporting her being elected, knew about this criminal syndicate. Comey was protecting it. Lynch was protecting it. Weissmann was protecting it. And that is the big why. What’s she got on these people? Are they financial ties? They had to be aware of this, especially the counter-intelligence units. We know it was hacked into by foreign intelligence services because it was just hanging out there. Hillary Clinton was running a secret server outside the Department of State for the purposes of laundering money through the criminal Clinton Foundation.”

This story today from Sara Carter is really interesting because CTH outlined the foundation of this back in January of 2017. According to an article published today by Sara Carter her congressional sources have told her of an investigation into former ODNI James Clapper and his leaking of “intelligence information” to CNN in an orchestrated effort to damage the incoming Trump administration.

Sara Carter – Former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper allegedly leaked information to CNN early last year regarding the classified briefings given to then President-Elect Donald Trump and President Barrack Obama on the salacious dossier claiming the Russians had compromising information on the president-elect, according to government sources, who noted the evidence of the leak was collected during the House Intelligence Committee’s Russia investigation.

Felix Sater, the man at the center of a controversial email "tying" President Trump to Russia while trying to work a business deal, has come forward in a comprehensive BuzzFeed News Exposé, which if Pulitzer Prize winning journalist Anthony Cormier and co-author Jason Leopold hadn't verified - nobody would believe.

Sater in Los Angeles (Photo: Melissa Lyttle for BuzzFeed News)
Sater went from a "Wall Street wunderkind" working at Bear Stearns and Lehman Brothers, to getting barred from the securities industry over a barroom brawl which led to a year in prison, to facilitating a $40 million pump-and-dump stock scheme for the New York mafia, to working telecom deals in Russia - where the FBI and CIA tapped him as an undercover intelligence asset who was told by his handler "I want you to understand: If you’re caught, the USA is going to disavow you and, at best, you get a bullet in the head."

Former CIA Officer and whistleblower Kevin Shipp says the reason for all the crime and treason at the FBI and DOJ can be boiled down to one thing: a global financial crime spree. “Hillary Clinton was running and is running a global financial criminal syndicate,” and Shipp believes Barack Obama was in on it.

United States Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said on Monday that the poisoning of former Russian spy Sergei Skripal "clearly came from Russia," and that it "will trigger a response."

The official told reporters that he's not sure whether the Russian government had knowledge of the poisoning, but that the nerve agent used in the attack couldn't have originated elsewhere. He noted that the substance the UK says the two were attacked with exists "only in the hands of a very, very limited number of parties."

Speaking to reporters during his flight from Nigeria to Washington, DC, Tillerson called the incident "a really egregious act" and that it's "almost beyond comprehension" that a state actor would use the nerve agent in a public place.

A new report by the YouTube channel X22 Report claims that the deep state may want NSA leaker, Edward Snowden. Apparently, Snowden may have information that could take them all down.

Dave from the X22 Report begins by stating the obvious: big tech giants such as YouTube have been taking down news channels that don’t align with the deep state’s brand of tyranny. But he says to watch for people to dump stocks as the Internet Bill of Rights (IBOR) becomes more widely accepted (the regulation of tech giants to stop censorship). Because once freedom is speech is allowed online again, all of the information can come out, and Snowden may have more that will cripple the deep state.

Christopher Steele, who was responsible for the infamous Trump dossier, was connected with the Russian double-agent and ex-spy who was poisoned along with his daughter, with a nerve agent. (The British government is blaming Moscow for the attempted assassination. Or “wet works” as Dave put it.)

Hillary Clinton’s trip to India is evoking memories from her failed 2016 bid for president, as the Democrat makes headlines for blaming racism and misogyny for her loss while taking stumbles in front of the cameras.

During an appearance in India over the weekend, Clinton claimed she lost the 2016 presidential race in part because white women didn’t stand up to the men in their lives pressuring them to vote for Donald Trump.

“We do not do well with white men and we don’t do well with married, white women,” Clinton said at a conference in Mumbai, India. “And part of that is an identification with the Republican Party, and a sort of ongoing pressure to vote the way that your husband, your boss, your son, whoever, believes you should.”

A Washington state court on Friday moved to end a lengthy legal campaign against former board members of the Olympia Food Co-op over their decision to support a boycott of Israeli goods.

“It’s a huge victory that’s been a long time coming,” said Maria LaHood, deputy legal director of the Center for Constitutional Rights, which is part of the legal team representing the defendants.

In 2010 the co-op became the first grocery store in the US to boycott Israeli goods as part of the global boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) campaign for Palestinian rights.

A state court dismissed the lawsuit filed in 2011 by five former members of the board working closely with the Israel advocacy group StandWithUs. The plaintiffs sought to block the co-op’s boycott and secure monetary damages against board members who voted in favor of the measure.

Lo and behold, just after an infectious disease expert said in news reports that the world needs to prepare for the next deadly flu pandemic that is predicted to kill 200 million and that the infectious disease industry needs an additional $7.5 billion to prevent such an occurrence (wouldn’t have anything to do with steep budget cuts planned for government agencies that oversee disease control and vaccines, would it?), the World Health Organization (WHO) includes in its 2018 list of disease priorities “disease x.”

“Nobody can tell you what Disease X is, or what it will become, because it is a future planned unknown infectious disease the WHO says it must begin to prepare for.”

On a tour of the Muslim holy site, the Haram-al-Sharif, in the Old City of Jerusalem yesterday, a Colorado congressman’s wife advised messianic Jews that “seizure” of the site might be the best option. “Why not tomorrow– say it’s ours!” she said to zealots on the site.

Jean Tipton was touring the site along with her husband Scott Tipton, a Republican representing western Colorado, and Rep. David McKinley of West Virginia and his wife Mary.

The Haram-al-Sharif or Noble Sanctuary is the third holiest site in Islam. It is governed by a Muslim waqf, backed by Jordan. The site in the occupied Old City of Jerusalem is also revered by Jews because it is the site of the first and second Jewish temples. Its western wall is the famous scene of Jewish prayer.

Jewish Temple Mount activists dream of asserting Israeli sovereignty over the mount, removing the Muslim structures, and replacing them with a Jewish temple, with millions of Jews attending sacrifices there.

Less than two weeks before the Israeli energy giant Delek Drilling announced a $15 billion deal to pump natural gas to Egypt, one of its board members, Malcolm Hoenlein, told a newspaper that the United States should be “standing up for” Egypt’s president, Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, despite his troubling human rights record.

“You can criticize and you can push for human rights and do all those things,” Hoenlein said. “At the same time you’ve got to recognize the realities that these countries face.”

Hoenlein did not speak to the newspaper as a Delek Drilling board member. Instead, he spoke in his more familiar role: as the prominent leader of one of the American Jewish community’s most powerful foreign and domestic policy advocacy groups. As the head of the not-for-profit Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations, Hoenlein has represented American Jews in meetings with the top levels of Israeli, Arab and U.S. political leadership for decades.

In a three-part series published last week, the World Socialist Web Site documented an unprecedented influx of intelligence and military operatives into the Democratic Party. More than 50 such military-intelligence candidates are seeking the Democratic nomination in the 102 districts identified by the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee as its targets for 2018. These include both vacant seats and those with Republican incumbents considered vulnerable in the event of a significant swing to the Democrats.

If on November 6 the Democratic Party makes the net gain of 24 seats needed to win control of the House of Representatives, former CIA agents, military commanders, and State Department officials will provide the margin of victory and hold the balance of power in Congress. The presence of so many representatives of the military-intelligence apparatus in the legislature is a situation without precedent in the history of the United States.

Last week, students at the University of Virginia protested during a campus event featuring a group of Israeli soldiers.

The soldiers were part of Reservists on Duty, an organization that aims to counter the boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) movement for Palestinian rights on US college campuses.

They were brought to campus by Israel-aligned groups in order to “humanize the conflict” – in other words, to distract from Israel’s human rights abuses and help brand the Israeli military as “the most moral army in the world.”

Protesters held signs and chanted slogans including, “Fight the power, turn the tide, end Israeli apartheid.”

Following their action in solidarity with Palestinians living under Israeli military rule, the University of Virginia’s dean of students Allen Groves accused the protesters of violating univerisity rules and hampering free speech.

USDA on Monday announced it is withdrawing the beleaguered Organic Livestock and Poultry Practices final rule published in January 2017, citing significant policy and legal issues.

The rule would have added new provisions for livestock handling and transportation for slaughter, and avian living conditions in organic production. It would also have expanded existing requirements for livestock care and production practices.

The Organic Trade Association contends there is overwhelming support for the rule by the organic industry and consumers. In September, it filed a lawsuit against USDA alleging the agency violated the Organic Food Production Act by delaying the rule’s effective date.

The rule was passed in the final days of the Obama administration and was initially set to go into effect March 20, 2017. A regulatory freeze by incoming President Trump pushed implementation back to May 19, 2017.

A prominent US Jewish group on Saturday slammed Russian President Vladimir Putin for suggesting earlier in the day that Russians who sought to influence the results of the 2016 US presidential elections could have been Jews, saying his remarks were “eerily reminiscent of the Protocols of the Elders of Zion.”

Christopher Steele is not convinced that the most salacious claim in his infamous dossier is accurate.

Steele’s business partner at their private intelligence firm is even less certain, and the founder of Fusion GPS, the firm that commissioned the dossier, also has his doubts.

That’s according to a deeply reported section of “Russian Roulette: The Inside Story of Putin’s War on America and the Election of Donald Trump,” a new book by veteran investigative reporters Michael Isikoff and David Corn.

“Steele’s claim in the sensational sex claim would fade over time,” reads the book, which hit shelves Tuesday.

The Oklahoma Senate approved legislation Monday that could eventually lead to tighter Medicaid eligibility requirements, ultimately blocking thousands of people from receiving aid under the federal program.

Senate Bill 1030 by state Sen. Josh Brecheen would order the Oklahoma Health Care Authority to ask the federal government's permission to lower the eligibility level for parents and caretakers who are able to work so fewer people would qualify. The bill would not affect children receiving Medicaid or the aged, blind or disabled.

In Oklahoma, 106,624 people in the parent/caretaker group are currently enrolled in Medicaid. If the bill passes and the federal government approves the change, 43,611 would be removed from eligibility.

Failed presidential candidate Hillary Clinton gave a talk in India over the weekend, and her rhetoric on Trump voters is probably a bit offensive to them.

“Look at the map of the United States. There’s all the red in the middle where Trump won. Now I win the coasts, I win Illinois, Minnesota, places like that. But what the map doesn’t show you is that I won the places that represent two-thirds of America’s gross domestic product,” Clinton claimed. (RELATED: Hillary Clinton Gets A Standing Ovation For Walking Into A Restaurant)

“So I won the places that are optimistic, diverse, dynamic, moving forward, and his whole campaign ‘Make America Great Again’ was looking backwards. ‘You know, you didn’t like black people getting rights, you don’t like women, you know, getting jobs, you don’t want to, you know, see that Indian-Americans are succeeding more than you are — whatever your problem is, I’m going to solve it.'”

Despite an escalation of the Afghan conflict under the Trump administration, a record opium coupled with steady Taliban gains, foretell bitter fighting in the coming months for American forces>>>

(*Cleverly the article puts it on The Taliban , like back when America was great .
It fails to give reason for our presence in Afghanistan , albeit , we've been assured by The P.O.T.U.S. that one thing we're not doing is Nation building .
The header should read; "Record Afghan Opium Crop Signals Violent Year for US Forces And A Banner Year For US Pharmaceutical Corporations" , but how can it if it is suggesting that in the midst of all the combat , The Taliban is doing all the opium harvesting , which is victimising our troops , all because nobody was ever actually prosecuted for Reagan Era Iran Contra dealings, from back when America was great , the first time ?)

Hillary Clinton is enjoying a girls trip to India with Huma Abedin and other friends – even as she vents about the political map of her election loss – which she partly attributes to Trump getting votes from people who 'didn't like black people getting rights.'

Clinton toured the ancient city of Mandu and other cultural sights – and didn't stop herself from picking over more recent history, such as her 2016 loss to President Trump, and claiming she won the part of the country that is 'optimistic.'

Speaking to a business conclave sponsored by India Today in Mumbai, Clinton described about the electoral map of her defeat, pointing out there is ''all that red in the middle where Trump won.'

'I win the coasts, I win Illinois, Minnesota, places like that,' she told her audience of Indian business leaders.

Then she came up with a new metric. 'But what the map doesn’t show you is that I won the places that represent two-thirds of America’s Gross Domestic Product,' she said.

Felix Sater, the man at the center of a controversial email "tying" President Trump to Russia while trying to work a business deal, has come forward in a comprehensive BuzzFeed News Exposé, which if Pulitzer Prize winning journalist Anthony Cormier and co-author Jason Leopold hadn't verified - nobody would believe.

Sater in Los Angeles (Photo: Melissa Lyttle for BuzzFeed News)
Sater went from a "Wall Street wunderkind" working at Bear Stearns and Lehman Brothers, to getting barred from the securities industry over a barroom brawl which led to a year in prison, to facilitating a $40 million pump-and-dump stock scheme for the New York mafia, to working telecom deals in Russia - where the FBI and CIA tapped him as an undercover intelligence asset who was told by his handler "I want you to understand: If you’re caught, the USA is going to disavow you and, at best, you get a bullet in the head."